1998:563 - VESNOY, Roscommon
County: Roscommon
Site name: VESNOY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 23:171
Licence number: 98E0453
Author: Gerry Walsh
Author/Organisation Address: Rathbawn Road, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 593804m, N 781192m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.780277, -8.094001
Pre-development testing was undertaken on the site of a proposed development in Vesnoy, Strokestown Co. Roscommon, in October 1998. The proposed development site lies within the designated archaeological area of a ringfort.
Five test-trenches were excavated by machine. Trench 1 was dug along the western boundary of the proposed development site adjacent to the ringfort. It ran in a north-south direction and measured 25m x 2m. The sod/topsoil layer directly overlay the boulder clay. Stratigraphy was similar in all the other trenches.
No archaeological features or small finds were recovered from any of the trenches.